What Would Happen If Vince McMahon ACTUALLY Sold WWE?

WWE's production is celebrated even when the company conspire to make their product uglier than they should. Those f*cking camera cuts or the stupid way they film a guy getting battered with a chair are quirks of Kevin Dunn, but he remains the architect of a show that still looks and feels top-of-the-range. Disney couldn't gloss it up much more for trying...but they would try.

That's fascinating, isn't it? Remember - and this is perhaps an indictment on the product at large - how exciting it was when the Raw stage became a skate ramp or the company brought pyro back just because, or Bray Wyatt unveiled a blue Universal Title? Aesthetics used to enhance and augment the wrestlers and the wrestling, but they've come to be so much more than that when one or both of those things simply aren't engaging enough.

A loan of funding and personnel from the biggest media, film and television conglomerate in the world could strap a rocket to the whole thing beyond what we've already seen. Literally so - Vince McMahon might finally get to see his WrestleMania on the moon fantasy play out, there'd be so much money swirling around. And that's just what you see on screen. What about how Disney market the brand in ways WWE have tried and failed to do in the past. 20 years ago, nobody gave a Donald Duck about the Times Square location when the novelty wore off, but a ride or attraction or actual Hall Of Fame museum buried within Walt Disney World Resort isn't that Goofy.

Beyond planning a nice holiday, there's some fan-friendly sentiment here too - in order to get all of this to matter beyond wrestling's relatively niche audience, Disney would have to tweak WWE's output and make a fairly meaningless concern mainstream again. All good in theory, but expect a return of stars and ratings at the direct expense of star ratings.

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